Michelle Morgan

Good morning.

Thank you for having me.

It was 1985 and I was 15 years old and she'd sort of been on my radar, of course, because, you know, she was Marilyn and she was everywhere.

But I was on holiday with my family and I saw a picture of her and I just couldn't get it out of my mind.

And then that evening I said, I think I'm going to buy a book about her just so I can read it on the beach.

And I did.

And I did read it on the beach.

And then the rest is history.

I was completely hooked from the moment I started to learn about her life.

You know, I really don't know.

This is the number one question that I get asked and every single time I answer it.

I say something different and I think that there lies the clue that I have no idea why everyone is so fascinated by her other than it's very different for every single person.

Some people just love the way she looked on camera, other people love the way that she was so strong and she tried to do her best and she tried to learn and she never stopped learning and going after her dreams and things like that.

It's quite a mystery as to why her memory is still so alive in everybody's minds, except that she's something different for everybody.

Yeah, I mean, that was a character that she was playing.

You know, Lorelei Lee, who she played in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, is a character.

And this has always been quite a mystery to me as to why people think that Marilyn was the people she played.

You know, nobody thinks that Arnie is really the Terminator.

Nobody thinks that Johnny Depp is really a pirate.

And yet everybody thinks that Marilyn is a dumb blonde, and that's because of some of the parts she played.